A multi-start quantum-inspired evolutionary algorithm for solving combinatorial optimization problems. - Parvaz Mahdabi; Saeed Jalili; Mahdi Abadi (GECCO, 2008)

A novel quantum-inspired evolutionary algorithm for solving combinatorial optimization problems. - Parvaz Mahdabi; Mahdi Abadi; Saeed Jalili (GECCO, 2009)

University of Lugano at TREC 2010. - Mostafa Keikha; Parvaz Mahdabi; Shima Gerani; Giacomo Inches; Javier Parapar; Mark James Carman; Fabio Crestani (TREC, 2010)

Report on the CLEF-IP 2011 Experiments: Exploring Patent Summarization. - Parvaz Mahdabi; Linda Andersson; Allan Hanbury; Fabio Crestani (CLEF (Notebook Papers/Labs/Workshop), 2011)

Building Queries for Prior-Art Search. - Parvaz Mahdabi; Mostafa Keikha; Shima Gerani; Monica Landoni; Fabio Crestani (IRFC, 2011)

A Linear Programming-based Evolutionary Algorithm for the Minimum Power Broadcast Problem in Wireless Sensor Networks. - Roberto Montemanni; Parvaz Mahdabi (J. Math. Model. Algorithms, 2011)

Report on the CLEF-IP 2012 Experiments: Exploring Passage Retrieval with the PIPExtractor. - Linda Andersson; Parvaz Mahdabi; Allan Hanbury; Andreas Rauber (CLEF (Online Working Notes/Labs/Workshop), 2012)

Learning-Based Pseudo-Relevance Feedback for Patent Retrieval. - Parvaz Mahdabi; Fabio Crestani (IRFC, 2012)

Automatic refinement of patent queries using concept importance predictors. - Parvaz Mahdabi; Linda Andersson; Mostafa Keikha; Fabio Crestani (SIGIR, 2012)

Exploring Patent Passage Retrieval Using Nouns Phrases. - Linda Andersson; Parvaz Mahdabi; Allan Hanbury; Andreas Rauber (ECIR, 2013)

Leveraging conceptual lexicon: query disambiguation using proximity information for patent retrieval. - Parvaz Mahdabi; Shima Gerani; Jimmy Xiangji Huang; Fabio Crestani (SIGIR, 2013)

Query-Driven Mining of Citation Networks for Patent Citation Retrieval and Recommendation. - Parvaz Mahdabi; Fabio Crestani (CIKM, 2014)

The effect of citation analysis on query expansion for patent retrieval. - Parvaz Mahdabi; Fabio Crestani (Inf. Retr., 2014)

Patent Query Formulation by Synthesizing Multiple Sources of Relevance Evidence. - Parvaz Mahdabi; Fabio Crestani (ACM Trans. Inf. Syst., 2014)

Effect of Log-Based Query Term Expansion on Retrieval Effectiveness in Patent Searching. - Wolfgang Tannebaum; Parvaz Mahdabi; Andreas Rauber (CLEF, 2015)

Comparing Two Strategies for Query Expansion in a News Monitoring System. - Parvaz Mahdabi; Andrei Popescu-Belis (NLDB, 2016)

Question answering in conversations: Query refinement using contextual and semantic information. - Maryam Habibi; Parvaz Mahdabi; Andrei Popescu-Belis (Data Knowl. Eng., 2016)